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BingoBoingo: No mircea_popescu
Twas you have no friends, all in Ohio hellhole nao, make meaning.
That
twas
the Prussian renaissance
decimation: well, here's a notion: what happened in germany circa 1790-1890
that caused such great minds
to mature
to fruition?
decimation: I read
the wrong year, born 1889 in veinna
assbot: Ludwig Wittgenstein - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
decimation: wittgenstein
too, although he was austrian I
think
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well for blowback operated machines of
the
time it is whatever Browning himself deigned
mircea_popescu: decimation not even what i had in mind. i
think i ruined someone's life with frege earlier in
the logs.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> in 1911, physics, chemistry, were practically as synonymous with germany as seppuku is with japan. <<
this is
true
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> someone even
took
the
trouble
to
translate notes
to english, in many cases. << Sad so long
take for 9 letter dictionary
decimation: yeah
they kinda look similar superficially. At least
the stg44 proved
the concept
decimation: well, and
the kalash is based on
the stg 44
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In American lore
the only silent bullets happen in .45 ACP or .22 LR
decimation: I heard from a fellow who was in charge of
trying
to duplicate german paint
technology post-wwii.
they were amazed
to find german railcars painted 10 years earlier
that looked new
BingoBoingo: 1911 Forces my brain
to
think of
the Colt pistol
decimation: even in wwii german
technology was generally superior
decimation: well, it was also partially done during
the first world war
too
decimation: it is sad
that
the world has largely lost
this diaspora because of hitler's derpage
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2014 01:13:02; decimation: In 1897,
there lived 345 000 Germans in Ukraine,
that was 4,2 % of
the population. In 1911,
there were 419 000 Germans. ... In spite of it, Germans played an important part in
the Ukrainian culture life. Until 1914 many professors at Ukrainian universities were Germans.
BingoBoingo: And were formed on ideas stronger
than Prussia sucks
BingoBoingo: Oh,
there are fully functional hamlets in
the Ozarks
decimation: well, many were rounded up and forcibly moved by
the post wwii allies and stalin
decimation: I have distant ancestors who lived in odessa,
they were invited by Catherine
the Great
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Quite a few. Mostly in Missouri Arkansas and
Texas
decimation: the germans in
the us were basically cowed by
the english into giving up
their past so
that
they wouldn't be suspect during ww I&II
decimation: I've only read slaugherhouse five, I'll have
to pick
that up
assbot: Kurt Vonnegut on Indianapolis, Kilgore
Trout, and Dresden
decimation: vonnegut was pissed
that his father failed
to bring him up in German culture, and dropped him in "one language English only" americanism << "But no, absolutely not – it was almost perverse, I
think,
that my father would cut me off from
the past in such a way. And I
think Germans are
the most American of all people; [Dwight D.] Eisenhower was as American as a McDonald’s hamburger."
http://www.hanknuwer.com/vonnegut.html mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo>
The problem
though is support can be more dangerous
than
the enemy <<
this is very
true. french resisters had an ambiguous reputation with
the foreign secret agents dropped in
the field.
BingoBoingo: Imagine how many Wasps must have fallen
to "friendly" infantry on first contact
decimation: heh yeah I half expected
the book
to end with
the man dying at
the end of
the sights of a
Terran space-marine
BingoBoingo: The problem
though is support can be more dangerous
than
the enemy
decimation: yeah, if you are going
to be a wasp with support, secure comms are pretty important
decimation: BingoBoingo: oh you mean
the book duh. I like cylinder 22
BingoBoingo: decimation: No,
the one with a phone built in, Cylinder #22's
third most important companion
mircea_popescu: my point is, you expect me
to show up in court because a horse ?!
mircea_popescu: urtis Gibbs of Allentown got a break
this month when he went
to court for allegedly slapping state
Trooper Joe Bushta's horse during Musikfest."
decimation: asciilifeform: so at least %15 of
the pa state police are hunting for
this guy?
assbot: Eric Frein manhunt wipes out speeding
tickets, citations -
The Morning Call
BingoBoingo: decimation: Point is with
the wrong support suicide mission stays suicide mission
decimation: if you are
trying
to stir up a heap of
trouble in a foreign land, occasional bombardment helps quite a bit
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> hitler, stalin - never. <<
they were popular.
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah, as Mr. Yarvin said, revolutions are when random adventurers seize power for
their own ends
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2014 23:45:36; asciilifeform:
t, shops, warehouses.
The crowd has - a correct instinct. It would like
to destroy
the city -
the citadel of power of
the political and economic kind -
the root cause of its
travails.
The crowd is stopped in its
tracks by
those who have plans for
the city hall, for
the presidential palace. We will not stop
the crowd.' (Limonov, 'The Other Russia.') -
translation mine.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2014 23:45:36; asciilifeform: 'Take a look in History, flip
through her pages.
The first action in revolutions of recent history --
the erection of barricades.
They'll smash
the cobble stones of
the street, dig
them out, and block off
the road with
them.
They'll stop cars, buses, fill
the street with bricks. And also
they'll attack, plunder, raze, and put
to
the
torch
the city hall, administrative buildings, presidential palace
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> 'if i get 8 inches of crystalline unobtainium armour, i must be important' << Shhh stop
talking about my
tent
decimation: as I recall,
the leaders of
those who overthrew
the czar immediately began using his fancy boats, palaces, etc for
their own private benefit because "they were for
the people"
decimation: asciilifeform: I suspect for
the second half
that
they don't
think of
themselves as evil -
they
think
that
those who would wish
them ill as evil.
they are just
trying
to do good, you see -
they are just "in
the loop"
assbot: Sneed: Whats
the secret
to Valerie Jarretts security detail? - Chicago Sun-Times
BingoBoingo: You know... In
the current jurisidtion... No one gives mayor joe
trouble, inspite of
the populace probably being moar aremed
than DC's
decimation: asciilifeform: I've seen lafayette park closed just for 'quitting
time' for white house people
to walk away without having
to
touch
the smelly
tourists
decimation: my understanding is
that
the press 'takes
turns' filming every movement of
the president so
that if he explodes or something
they will have
the film
decimation: I suspect
that you had every legal right
to walk right past
that secret service uniformed guy closing lafayette park
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> hitler, stalin - never. << But
those preceeded
the Kennedy Fuher
decimation: I would like
to see a us attorney defend
that
to a judge
decimation: george will has a story about obama's visit
to his house when he first came
to
town. apparently
the secret service
told
the neighbors
that
they weren't allowed
to walk on
their own lawn
decimation: like, can
the president cancel 'freedom of assembly' where he wants?
decimation: asciilifeform: I have witnessed similar 'convoys' in wash dc. It's amusing
to see how
the "sovereign people" are so easily herded away from public areas
assbot: Inside
the President's armored limo | Autoweek
decimation:
http://www.hcn.org/issues/106/3348 << "Vincent, chairman of
the Sierra Club's Environmental Quality Strategy
Team, says
the Army should invest in
technologies
that will be useful
to private companies, rather
than wasting
time and money on incineration: "It is unconscionable for
the military
to be investing in dead-end
technologies
that nobody else wants." "
mircea_popescu: decimation: pre-iphone
there were a variety of hardware devices, post-iphone
there are only iphone clones <<<
this is because current crop of ruminants are idiots, believe in
the myth of "the best"
decimation: every molecule is precious when it comes
to
the environment!!
BingoBoingo: <decimation> asciilifeform: I was speaking with a fellow who had
to rube-goldberg engineer a crazy 'biologic' breakdown system for mustard gas, because
the envirocultists refused
to allow simple incineration of
the stuff << Disolve in vegetable oil, emulsify with albumin, condiment
that passes spec in Ohio